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Huruma News Update June 2010

Huruma family is delighted to present you with our Home Newsletter for the month of June. We feel blessed and delighted this moment as we share with you what the Lord has been doing in our wonderful Home and lives during the month. We pray that you will be refreshed and blessed as you read through it. We hope our friends and partners will appreciate the news update. Here is another of our Huruma Newsletter. Blessings to you!!

Love,
Huruma Family.  

Hearty Christian greetings from Huruma Family, Kenya! God has tremendously blessed our ministry this year and we are grateful for the far He has brought our Home. I have been able to travel abroad this year, which was a big milestone for me and the Home since my husband went to be with the Lord. God has done a lot for us here in Huruma for He has healed our hearts and we have started moving on and accepting life has to continue.  Before, when my husband was still alive, the children felt safe when he was left to care for them while I was away and as you remember we were traveling abroad for the first time together, but God took him just two weeks before our departure.  So this time l did not know how it will go since our first daughter Caroline, who is very strong and vocal is now pursuing her Masters degree abroad. But God has been faithful for He has given me supportive staff who I can entrust my children with and also Catherine, my other daughter was around and am thankful to God for making this possible.

In a nutshell I wanted to brief you on some of the things the Lord has done in our ministry, often in the midst of many hardships, hindrances and obstacles. Let us give Him all the praise and glory for His mercies endures forever. Here are the major point-outs: -

• The case we filed against the children department and the minister for Gender   was honored and the Judge ruled in our favor. The children department and the minister for Gender were issued with a restraining order until the Court deliberates the matter on the 27th of September 2010.

NB: Just to point out and clear things; The children department has never filed a case against Huruma Children’s Home but its Huruma Children’s Home who went to court seeking for protection against the stated party

• Good news is that we have started building our children’s dormitories again and we are working hard to see if we can finish the sub-structure which we pray that 75% of it will be done by the end of October, where we will then have to give the foundation 21 days to be solid and strong. The school building and the school chapel is 98% finished

• The Biogas Project is 98% finished.

You were such a source of strength, comfort, and encouragement to me and my children. Your prayers, understanding, and financial support has kept us standing tall and firm, when all our destructors and other prophets of doom predicted our imminent downfall and destruction. Thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus. Thanks for believing in us and standing firmly behind us with prayers of faith. We are laborers together with God and with you. May God bless you richly and we appreciate hearing from you too.

Home News

The Month started at a low key being the month we were eagerly waiting for the court case to be determined at the start of the month. The guiding golden verses for this month as we started was and remains Philippians 3:13 “Forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead”. I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus. We have found favor with the Lord Almighty who has continued to be our refuge in times of distress and has always stood the gap of challenges along the way. We also thank him for the care and protection through out the month and especially at the absence of Mama who traveled out for the sake of creating awareness on behalf of the children who are the beneficiaries. Through his providence the children have not lacked the basic necessity and people through the love of God have truly helped and not by merely talking about it but by doing in actions.

First and foremost, I would like to appreciate the Ladies from Presbyterian Church of East Africa from Kayole, who were the first visitors in the month of June for your generous visit to the Home. You are the greatest Ladies of excellence and may the good Lord bless you mightily in all your endeavors and may He also extend the goodness to your children and the generation to come. We enjoyed your company that evening and we felt that we belong to the rest of the world though sometimes our children feel as if they are isolated and live in a world of their own. Thanks for the encouragement you passed on to them that very moment you did your arrangements to come and visit them. Your Spiritual and material gifts that you offered to them will remain forever in our memories.

Secondly, our friends and partners from Gretsa University and students from Kamahuha Girls who flowered our weekend on the 19th June. After spending our morning performing our household chores and the general cleaning of the Home, we had this wonderful afternoon and we all joined in praising till evening. It was on this day that I recalled a prayer Mama said before she left for the U.S. that she has left God to be our guide, to feed us and to protect us and this is surely what has been happening. Thanks so much and am confident that you will continue receiving the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living and as the mountains surround Jerusalem, may the Lord surround you with His love now and forever more. Those who visited us as individuals, thanks in abundance and know that your sowing is not in vain. Be blessed.

As the month closed down we also received a large group of visitors who were in the company of Dr. Egerton and his wonderful wife who prayed and fellowshipped with us during one of our Wednesday fellowship meetings. Remember this: “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously, will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. May God make all grace abound to you, so that in all things and at all times having all that you need and that you will abound in every good work at all times. (2nd Corinthians 9:6-9).

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